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Kat Smithson

Is just one pill a day always the best way?

11/11/2014

Treatment for HIV involves combining drugs from three different classes of anti-retroviral (ARVs) and there are single pill regimens that...

Kat Smithson

Can England learn from the US's HIV prevention ambitions?

06/11/2014

The scene was set at the HIV Glasgow 2014 conference with public health expert, Kevin Fenton’s speech comparing the current...

Sarah Radcliffe

Three reasons why Nigel Farage is wrong on HIV and immigration

10/10/2014

Like many people I was alarmed this morning to hear Nigel Farage’s comments to Newsweek and on the radio about...

Sally Thomas

Are police at risk of HIV at work?

09/10/2014

In the press this week there have been a number of reports about a man living with HIV who attacked...

Sarah Radcliffe

Should you care about commissioning?

16/09/2014

Last week Public Health England launched a new publication, Making it work: a guide to whole system commissioning for sexual...

Suzi Price

What we need to know about ‘knowingly’

10/09/2014

There have been a number of reports of on an HIV criminalisation case in the media this week, describing the...

Yusef Azad

Keep our sexual health services confidential

06/08/2014

Sexual health remains for most people a sensitive and private matter – if we go to a sexual health clinic...

Phil

Improving police training and tackling the fear of HIV

30/07/2014

‘When asked about the most dangerous aspects of their jobs, neither constable misses a beat. "You can be searching somebody...

Sarah Radcliffe

Four messages from AIDS 2014, and what they mean for HIV in the UK

25/07/2014

Today is the final day of AIDS 2014, the 20th International AIDS Conference hosted in Melbourne this week. Despite the...

Sarah Radcliffe

What the world can learn from criminalisation in the UK

22/07/2014

At the International AIDS Conference in Melbourne there has been lots of talk about the criminal law can impede the...